On Saturday, a fire engulfed a home at Medgar Evers Drive in Grambling. Responding to the fire was Grambling Fire Department, assisted by Lincoln Parish Fire Department. GFD officials could not be reached for further details before press time.

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For the 25th annual Louisiana Chicken Festival, hundreds of people came out to show their support of the state’s namesake chicken festival. Locals are photographed above enjoying the Strut, Cackle and Crow contest where youth and adults imitated their chicken counterparts for the chance to win a prize. See page 2A for more photos from Saturday’s events.

Stepping into the current facilities of the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office is much like stepping back in time. The offices, located on the ground floor and basement of the Lincoln Parish Courthouse, were built in 1950 and although not much has changed structurally, when it comes to law enforcement, it’s a whole different ball game,said Sheriff Mike Stone.

“When I started in 1976 we had 471 calls for service that whole year,” Stone said. “Last year, we had 16,000.”

If it hadn’t been for the disappearance of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, Lundy Cavender might not have joined the U.S. Navy.

“I saw the destroyers and I thought they were just so graceful,” he said, referring to the ships that searched the Pacific Ocean for Earhart in the summer of 1937.

Three years later, with World War II raging in Europe and a soon-to-be implemented draft law on the books in America, Cavender enlisted in the Navy. He spent four years aboard the heavy cruiser USS Louisville.